Patricia Jane Scruggs Trolinger, daughter of the late
David Richard and Frances Roberta Smith Scruggs, is a
native of Madisonville, Tennessee. The daughter of
an FBI agent, Patricia met her husband, Donald Cecil Trolinger, at Tinker Air Force Base. The couple has
been married over fifty years. Mr. Trolinger,
a US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, who served as a pilot
for over twenty years, is now retired. The
Trolingers have two children. Richard of
Bartlesville, Oklahoma and Betty Giffhorn of Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Richard and his wife have two daughters,
Alexis and Ellie. and Betty and her spouse, Matthew
Giffhorn have twin sons in Christopher and Benjamin and a
daughter, Katharine.

Society Memberships* National
Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Honorary
National
President; Past President of the Officers National Club)
*
Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots
of the
American Revolution (Honorary Governor General)
*
The Order of Descendants of the First Families of Rhode
Island and
Providence Plantations
*
Colonial Dames of America
*
Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars
*
National Gavel Society
*
National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
*
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
*
Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents & First
Ladies of
America

Authorship1812 Ancestor Index – Volume II 1970-1992

Other NotesMrs.
Trolinger was a founding member of the Scruggs Family
Association, a family lineage organization that is
associated with the Scruggs family. She was President for
many years and the first editor of the organization's
publication "Searching for Scruggs" She was Tribal
Historian for the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma from 1978 to
2003 and wrote the "History of the Modoc Tribe of
Oklahoma" in 2003.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the Ottawa
County, Oklahoma Historical Society for many years. She
has served as President of the Miami Animal
Welfare Society. Mrs. Trolinger has served her
church, First Presbyterian, as a deacon, and has been on
numerous committees.

When living in Stuttgart Germany with her husband, she was
appointed Cheerleading Commissioner of all youth at Patch
Barracks by General Burchinal, DCINC of EUCOM.